Young Manhattanite

2009

2008

Anyone know what Nick McGlynn was doing today?
Apr 1st
Paul Dano on his role in Gigantic: Did you do any special research for getting into this role? Hang...
Apr 1st

Coinage.

ninety9: Clogging v. to take one 140 character snippet of text and refeed it through every social...
Mar 31st

dear nyc

melissa: Someone wonderful offered me a sublet. God I want to take it. I just need more work...
Mar 31st
Boom, goes the dynamite. If you’re jealous of Lady Gaga, raise your hand. Solid. Total count,...
Mar 31st
Warch Watch
katiebakes: The perfect storm of 60 Minutes awesomeness. Featuring Lesley Stahl’s Lipstick and...
Mar 31st
caro: “I have the key to this here city, my dear.” — Andrew Mager on San Francisco. If you know...
Mar 31st
ninety9: If I could figure out how the question thing worked, I would ask “Could someone check with...
Mar 31st
Fek, please get in here and swing your unfollow pipe. These heavy image/little text posters and Lady...
Mar 31st
Fuck.
Mar 31st
Island Palestine.
Mar 31st
Maybe this is supposed to be funny, but it isn’t.
Mar 31st
Have you ever seen The Prestige? Do you know what she did to...
Mar 31st
Post-Madoff, Wiesel has apparently turned to drugs. A sad story.
Mar 31st
ninety9: youngmanhattanite: Next Year In Twitter: A Facebook Haggadah — it’s probably been...
Mar 31st
Larry the Cable Guy made $30 million last year. Don’t think about it.
Mar 31st
Who’s Ryan Brown?
Mar 31st
We tire of the Twitter strategy of referring to famous people by their first name so as to imply...
Mar 31st
doree: Sooooo…. yes, I know I put up the photographic...
Mar 31st
When I posted this earlier, I was unsure if, or how soon,...
Mar 31st
Next Year In Twitter: A Facebook Haggadah — it’s probably been blogged 30,000 times...
Mar 31st
If you click on this link you will hear some things you can never unhear.
Mar 30th
Did Orell OD on Paul Mitchell or something? WTF? He’s the second media “personae”...
Mar 30th

Words That Should Be Deleted From The...

- Meme.
Mar 30th
Remember when Gawker used to write for the media underclass? I’ve been an apologist for them...
Mar 30th
The Snuggie is just a blanket with holes in it. If you own one, you should be smothered with it.
Mar 30th
We’re giving Hitch an F (and wouldn’t be surprised if he regrets not having been killed,...
Mar 30th
“I should also add that it’s very difficult to satirize the Jewish world, because just when...
Mar 30th
Around the block…
Mar 30th
Warch Watch
The Younger Lovers - “Can I Come Over?” (Rip Offs), “Quoting Poets”...
Mar 30th
Madoff needs a song. A ballad. Can we work on this? Temporary nomination “Cold Desert”...
Mar 30th
Hottest Ticket in America, 2009: Seats near the Madoffs at Yom Kippur this year. They should live...
Mar 30th
Has Bernie Madoff shifted the global perception regarding Jews and the money within their control...
Mar 30th
Is Bernie Madoff a rainmaker?
Mar 30th
Is Bernie Madoff a jew?
Mar 30th
Is Bernie Madoff mad?
Mar 30th

Madoff

Just another Jew name to me. Good thing he had the first, more congieneal one going for him.
Mar 30th
Bernie sounds like my great uncle with the once-lounge act he’ll delve into at...
Mar 30th
Bernie Madoff is a comforting name.
Mar 30th
Bernie Madoff shirts will be cool in five years. Maybe less.
Mar 30th
Bernie Madoff will eventually find a fatherlike figure who will help the government use Madoff for...
Mar 30th
Bernie Madoff will get naked and teach a younger man how to love.
Mar 30th
My question was finally answered. Thank god. Onward: my dad used to tell this great joke: What...
Mar 30th
Warch Watch
I got a message for Smokey. John, Murray, Wak, Zeppo, Schlepp, whoever you got. Tomorrow night....
Mar 30th

I got a message for smokey

Wak, Smak, Brown, Murray, Zeppo, and whowver the fuck your bitch ass crew is: Drinks,...
Mar 30th
What’s the difference in between a bad Madoff joke and a good one? Satire disguised as...
Mar 30th
Young Madoff Lil’ Madoff Big Madoff Don Madoff Maddoff Dogg Ghostface Madoff Method...
Mar 30th
chrismohney: Lightning strike This happens everytime he...
Mar 30th
chrismohney: Lightning strike
Mar 30th
And then a hailstorm.
Mar 30th
Mar 30th
Warch Watch
Bernie Madoff finds this oddly mesmerizing.
Mar 29th
All Bernie Madoffs sound like Woody Allen.
Mar 29th
Bernie Madoffs have small penises.
Mar 29th
The jailing of Bernie Madoff didn’t actually happen.
Mar 29th
Bernie Madoff runs the media.
Mar 29th
Bernie Madoff might have horns.
Mar 29th
Bernie Madoff is the monster under your bed.
Mar 29th
What’s Bernie Madoff got to do, got to do with it?
Mar 29th
What’s the difference in between Bernie Madoff and a canoe? One tips, the other one fucks...
Mar 29th
Oy.
Mar 29th
For those who don’t understand Bernie Madoff, he’s like the geese that flew into that US...
Mar 29th
Bernie Madoff: worst thing the Jews can’t get rid of since Tay-Sachs disease.
Mar 29th
Knock knock. Who’s there? Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff who? Fuckin’ Goyim.
Mar 29th
If not a cog, you are nothing but a tool to the machine. So: what kind of tool are you?
Mar 29th
Mancrush you refuse to discuss: Justin Timberlake. Discuss.
Mar 29th
Would someone please explain what, if any, long-term value all this fameballery is expected to add...
Mar 29th
We’re giving Russell Brand a D+.
Mar 29th

headlines i will never click on ever

maura: “why gossip girl is the [insert insane superlative about some aspect of its ability to...
Mar 29th
Warch Watch
Rock bands are FAIL.
Mar 28th
We’re not entirely convinced that AntiKris and Michael Orell are different people.
Mar 28th
Warch Watch
“I didn’t blog it when we broke up” vs. “I think that was lost in a sync...
Mar 28th
Twitter makes me feel inadequate and out of the loop.
Mar 28th

Text Message From Washington DC Circa...

“Ian McKaye at Dean and Deluca now.”
Mar 27th

The Penis Mightier

BV B 86’d 4eva.
Mar 27th
Warch Watch
peterfeld: The Byrds (reunion): “Mr. Tambourine Man,” live at the Roy Orbison tribute in 1990. The...
Mar 27th
This is one of the many things I picked up at the Lilith...
Mar 27th
charitini: So! Without further ado, my honor roll of GPICT charities, and their beneficent Tumblr...
Mar 27th
Funny, I got a letter in the mail yesterday from Rabbi Waskow about this year’s 40th...
Mar 27th
peterfeld: This goes out to Young Manhattanite. New York in...
Mar 27th
peabs: WHAT. You know, one could just reblog Peabs all...
Mar 27th
Listen Listen
peterfeld: “Red River Valley,” from Byrds founder Roger McGuinn’s great folk blog. For all the...
Mar 27th
peterfeld: One of my all-time favorite Gawker posts, by...
Mar 27th
Warch Watch
If our Haggadah doesn’t capture at least some of the feel of the “Freedom Seder,...
Mar 27th
We really should unfollow someone today. Fek, you have the penis.
Mar 27th
Re the Single Asians: we referred to those a capella types as Yaliens. They can slurp my sushi....
Mar 27th
Eli reminded me of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Haggadah project. Well fuck him. Ours is gonna have...
Mar 27th

(Unedited) Preview Chapter of the YM...

The Four Sons (Context here) Most Haggahdahs detail a story about a father and his four sons,...
Mar 27th
Speaking of boo boo bulldogs, Katie, can you explain the All The Single Asians at Yale video? (Eli,...
Mar 27th
Admit it, you were actually searching for this.
Mar 27th
lenachen: Anatomy of an Outfit: Senior Bar Edition ...
Mar 27th
After Last Season: Um, First, Bitches
Mar 27th
Dude, I’ve totally shed tears for Israel before: when my roommate went there for Birthright.
Mar 27th
MISSING THE POINT
Mar 27th
For once, Katie weeps for Israel.
Mar 27th
It’s true that Katie Bakes just can’t get enough of those old double-fisting photos of...
Mar 27th
Nikolai Gogol: “Russia? Give Me the Answer! But Russia Gives None.”
Mar 27th
Mar 27th
Mar 27th
From our very good friend Mike Tully at indieWire: I was going to do a mock post throwing in my...
Mar 27th
Warch Watch
unsustainable: everybodycares: Cover: “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” - Neutral Milk Hotel ...
Mar 27th
bantr: I have a place to go this Passover, but it’s in Edison, New Jersey. Hey YM, I work in Little...
Mar 26th
Frankly, I’m just glad that Tom & Jerry’s shit is over.
Mar 26th
That’s fine, I don’t know who it is but I just checked and Jessica and Melissa are in...
Mar 26th
Sorry, Boss. Someone’s been unfollowed. Names won’t be named, but if I have to read any...
Mar 26th
Do you really want to do the YM Seder? Hang on, here comes the requisite flashback… I hosted...
Mar 26th
Tom and Jerry’s is the reminder of the way things might have been.
Mar 26th
Tom and Jerry’s is the crush you have on Caro (Rachel, too).
Mar 26th
Tom and Jerry’s is not having the stomach to admit to your acolytes that they are making a big...
Mar 26th
We are all Tom and Jerry’s.
Mar 26th
Tom and Jerry’s is the secret you keep from your loved ones that you are a failure.
Mar 26th
Tom and Jerry’s is the disappointment upon meeting your idols.
Mar 26th
Tom and Jerry’s is the mistake that you make on a Sunday afternoon.
Mar 26th
Populism is a word invented by the powerful and rich to put down the powerless and poor.
Mar 26th
Speaking of the angel of death: see ya, Blender. Good people worked at that publication; I’m...
Mar 26th
THE CITY: A NOVEL (PART 2) Chapter 7: The Truth Hurts Whitney, Allie, Erin and Samantha go out...
Mar 26th
Speaking of which: Andrew, are we doing something for sedar? We should invite all the goyim over,...
Mar 26th
Has it been at least an hour? OK, we’ll say it again: Dan Abrams is still a shady...
Mar 26th
Isn’t it Passover yet? I think the office is quiet today ‘cause we’re waiting for...
Mar 26th
Is there a Postcards from Yo Poppa blog floating around somewhere? Because my dad just sent me an...
Mar 26th

Psst... new joke idea!

Every time you see Choire, ask him how his novelization of The City is going (this is 99 BTW).
Mar 26th
All our friends are famous (but not us).
Mar 26th
Sweet. Anyone got a child I can borrow?
Mar 26th
This is where we’ll be tonight: Lilith magazine’s fundraising party and silent auction....
Mar 26th
Christian Christensen, professor at a Swedish university, writing for a French publication about the...
Mar 26th
OBAMA AT MANASSAS
Mar 26th
Dan Abrams is one shady motherfucker. Let’s just leave it at that.
Mar 26th
From the Gristmill: The New Yorker magazine has just published a lead story on climate,...
Mar 26th
peterfeld: But Wait… There’s More! Cityfile’s Remy Stern...
Mar 26th
What in the fuck happened here today?? I go away for the afternoon, because SOME OF US WORK, and I...
Mar 26th
Cocaine’s just another way of undoing years of therapy. Meth’s just another way of...
Mar 25th
A million here/a million there, yeah, you got a mill/but for real dog/nobody cares, if you don’t...
Mar 25th

Things We Need

- A bigger boat.
Mar 25th
skeetonmischa: Wu Tang Wednesday Memes we can get...
Mar 25th
The whole blogging as performance art thing? We’re calling bullshit on it.
Mar 25th
We might’ve lost the internet today, but our eggs are...
Mar 25th
YM lost the Internet today. Please, no one go looking for it.
Mar 25th
Important Jews Who Write: Elie Wiesel Tony Kushner Josh Schwartz
Mar 25th
Have you been following the catfight between @Edgar_Allan_Poe and @TheWaltWhitman? TheWaltWhitman: I...
Mar 25th
You know how some people will ask some other people, What do you think is really going on in his...
Mar 25th
Has no one read Thoreau?
Mar 25th

Great News, Seriously

A political play is staged in Palestine; despite the smashed windows and attempted arson that...
Mar 25th
brianvan: michaelorell: This is where YoungManhattanite...
Mar 25th
Make a pledge: This year I will not travel outside of my state and I will not fuck below my station.
Mar 25th
We’re more Night Kitchen people, ourselves.
Mar 25th
It’s heavy like death, but leavened with laughter.
Mar 25th
How heavy is Alex Blagg’s heart?
Mar 25th
Hello Me(me).
Mar 25th
In our blame game society, have you ever stopped to smell your finger?
Mar 25th
Why did the cleaning lady take a shit in my apartment yesterday and not flush it? WHY?
Mar 25th
Is this Guest of a Guest in Russian?
Mar 25th
Too obscure Mars?
Mar 25th
How it is so many people miss the point?
Mar 25th
When will these clouds all disappear? Where will it lead us from here? But ain’t it time we...
Mar 25th
What Rolling Stones album are you?
Mar 25th
Once upon a time two bloggers named Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan commented on each others blogs and...
Mar 25th
(Save your nickels for gumballs, kids. Our advice is free.)
Mar 25th
Whatever happened to Tuesdays and so slow?
Mar 25th
Can we not embrace pluralism?
Mar 25th
How often do you find yourself saying, “it has come full circle”?
Mar 25th
Why is YM getting emails from the Brooklyn Hall of Fame?
Mar 25th
Are we sorry? No, no we are not.
Mar 25th
What do you really have against Abercrombie & Fitch?
Mar 25th

So long tumblr

antikris: I’ll return when nudawn & YM take some imodium AD and stop with the diarrhea all over...
Mar 25th
What do Mickey Kaus and a Gin Blossoms song have in common?
Mar 25th
It puts a spring in our step whenever Sex Diary turns out to be by someone who’s female,...
Mar 25th
Why is NVC leaving NYC?
Mar 25th
No more.
Mar 25th
Don’t hurt me.
Mar 25th
Baby don’t hurt me.
Mar 25th
What is love?
Mar 25th
Um, guys?
Mar 25th
Why aren’t we losing more followers (say in the voice of Tobias — “Why am I not...
Mar 25th
Is this charity?
Mar 25th
Is anyone who works for Gawker not white?
Mar 25th
Krucoff’s mom: got it goin’ on?
Mar 25th
Are we human, or are we Gawker?
Mar 25th
What is the fifth square?
Mar 25th
What does Wak say? What does Wak say about Gamehendge?
Mar 25th
What do you call two elephants floating down a river?
Mar 25th
Are we done here?
Mar 25th
How many volunteers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Mar 25th
If a hipster falls in the woods, does anybody care?
Mar 25th
What makes a good sandwich?
Mar 25th
What do you say when Tom Stoppard calls you “wordy”?
Mar 25th
What does Frank Bruni dream about?
Mar 25th
Are you followed or a follower? Are you a friend, or are you friended?
Mar 25th
Does God have a Twitter?
Mar 25th
What does it take be the guest of guest of a guest?
Mar 25th
Who will play Dock Ellis in the Dock Ellis biopic?
Mar 25th
What is a Dave Eggers and how do I wear it?
Mar 25th
Where is the East Village?
Mar 25th
What is a Shake Shack?
Mar 25th

Marx Brothers Names That Should've Been

- Fucko
Mar 25th
Who is Andrew Krucoff?
Mar 25th
Who is Adam Gopnik?
Mar 25th
Potential guests for Bakes’ Pinche-catered book party: - 99 (as he actually lived through...
Mar 25th
Every day I’m Yum-blr-in: I just spoke with my man Jeff at Pinche. I’m hosting book club...
Mar 25th
It’s a good thing KB still reads Gawker to inform me about this stuff. For the record, no one...
Mar 25th
Mar 25th
Bad Idea Jeans.
Mar 24th
So AK, how did you decide whom to follow? Some of your choices aren’t exactly inspired.
Mar 24th
Gotta get back to the grind, but big points to Max...
Mar 24th
I miss you.
Mar 24th
This is now the nth time that I’ve logged on to Tumblr to say something pithy, Jenny...
Mar 24th
Who are you people and don’t you have jobs?
Mar 24th
eCard from Yo Momma I love her and all, but she’s going in that lot in Baltimore with...
Mar 24th
Has this been spoken for already?
Mar 24th
marklisanti: Oh my. I remember the days when people would...
Mar 24th
Someone has now caused YM to follow Hipster Runoff. ...
Mar 24th
In the interest of being fair (and karmically correct), this...
Mar 24th
The problem with Tumblr, the New York Media Scene, Spencer Morgan’s NYO profiles, most...
Mar 24th
I think by following so many people it has encouraged us to blog even more to keep up with the flow,...
Mar 24th
You think you’re old? 92Y turned 135 on Sunday. No big deal.
Mar 24th
Sorry Haute Like Couture, you’ve been unfollowed. It wasn’t an easy decision until we...
Mar 24th
What bugs me about Maddow is her insufferable fake laugh, especially when she has that unfunny...
Mar 24th
The backlash starts right here, right now: Rachel Maddow is ridiculously overrated. There,...
Mar 24th
Odds on the Sicha book being a bigger disappointment than the Vichon book? (This is Sac, btw. Hey...
Mar 24th
Who putting out their Kools on my carpet? For Chrissakes, enough with the following.
Mar 24th
I got it all except for the blue eyes and baldness.
Mar 24th
Note to brianvan and feistyred: We are quickly losing our patience with you. Take that conversation...
Mar 24th
I should think that the majority of American...
Mar 24th
I remember when I was a kid and one day I walked down to the...
Mar 24th
I know Choire’s writing a book and everything, but since when is YM following 81 people? ...
Mar 24th
I just “liked” a Chris Mohney post. I’d say I can go home now, but I’m...
Mar 24th
Mark your calendars… Todd P Presents: Chain and the Gang (featuring Ian Svenonius), The Hive...
Mar 24th
Two weeks late to this, but if you’re looking for audio from the University of Minnesota talk...
Mar 24th
On Joanna Smith Rakoff’s “A Fortunate Age” (the prequel to Choire’s...
Mar 24th
Choire Sicha isn’t tired of New York. He’s going to write a book about you, right here...
Mar 24th
Warch Watch
adamiss: How To Tie A Bow Tie  Brought to you by the Baltimore Sun’s copy desk chief. Go...
Mar 24th

Social Graffe

This will surely be a mistake but we’re going to start following most of you. Don’t know...
Mar 24th
Hey Paul.
Mar 24th
I’m bored of The New Yorker.
Mar 24th

Once You Go TMI, You Never Go Back

Have any of the guys out there ever used a panty-liner to cover a minor flesh wound because you...
Mar 24th
“I hope it’s not you who is posting anti-Israeli remarks on MANHATTANITE. After watching...
Mar 23rd
They’re not?
Mar 23rd
Why didn’t they just call Bill Maher’s movie All Christians are Evil and/or Stupid...
Mar 23rd
“We vehemently oppose the immigration of Jews, wherever they...”
— Week-old story about Yemenite...
Mar 23rd
New Afghan Plan? Replace Bush Puppet w/ Obama Puppet Chris Hedges: America Is in Need of a Moral...
Mar 23rd
Or Dr. Phil.
Mar 23rd
It should by now be clear that Meet the Press should have gone to Chuck Todd.
Mar 23rd
brianvan: Actually I thought it was coming from Eli. No, I stick to Greatest Jewish Issues of...
Mar 23rd
Doree liked your post. You can go home now.
Mar 23rd

I Love This.

brianvan: charitini: Sorry, Krucoff*, but this is awesome. *I just assume any Jew-related...
Mar 23rd
Warch Watch
I don’t know about you, but I prefer my Islamic Jew-hatred when it’s dubbed in German.
Mar 23rd
Don’t blame me, I voted for Dukakis.
Mar 23rd
Jesus, enough with the charity you guys. TIRED.
Mar 23rd
(Reactionary? Unintelligent? Unwarranted? Pessimistic? Political? Blogging? Yeah.) I think you are...
Mar 23rd
For those of us who disdain national politics and don’t believe presidential elections are...
Mar 23rd
The Look of Disgust™
Mar 23rd
All My Friends.
Mar 23rd
ARE YOU TIRED? We’re just getting warmed up. Look, Rex’s dog and Postcards from Yo...
Mar 23rd
I will never get tired of Andrew hating Rex’s dog. Rex KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING when he brought...
Mar 23rd
Foundation and cartoonist throw down the...
Mar 23rd
I’m tired of Rex’s dog. Really.
Mar 23rd
I’m tired of sex. Okay, not really, but whatever.
Mar 23rd
I’m tired of “jokes” that involve bare-bones knowledge of overplayed LCD...
Mar 23rd
I’m tired of being tired.
Mar 23rd
I’m tired of the Jews.
Mar 23rd
Me too.
Mar 23rd
Someone gave James Murphy the login?
Mar 23rd
I’m tired of New York.
Mar 23rd
Because of all the Jews that read it, this is naturally the most emailed NYT article of recent....
Mar 23rd

Tumblr Broadway: Annie

charitini: karenuhoh: tylercoates: molls: nudawn: Annie: Molls Sandy: SuckaFuck Miss...
Mar 23rd
Warch Watch
BJ Averell doing a pretty spot-on Joaquin Phoenix.
Mar 23rd
What’s the worst disaster in California history? Most people know this one. If you said the...
Mar 23rd
City Harvest probably didn’t ask, but he’s doing it anyway… In Dreams Begin...
Mar 23rd
Hiked 7 miles from LES to UWS today. No politics or bloggers.
Mar 23rd
The whole “I’m friends with David Carr” thing gets a B, at best.
Mar 22nd
Sacha Baron Cohen is kind of an asshole.
Mar 22nd
Warch Watch
From the days before Disney became all about bringing the money. Apropos Caro spotting the crew for...
Mar 22nd
Warch Watch
Mar 21st
Julia is like Soho House. Gloss on the outside, nothing but rank machination on the inside.
Mar 21st
Team Mary. No question.
Mar 21st
Never trust anyone with their own thinktank.
Mar 21st
Chunklet No. 20. About fucking time, Henry. What’s it been, a year?
Mar 21st
Warch Watch
Netanyahu in 1978: once a smug, myopic douchebag, always a smug, myopic douchebag. Coupla good...
Mar 21st
ninety9: Is this the same Weiss that used to write for the Observer (or still does)? Yes, past...
Mar 20th
Hey, Norma Rae (I’m talking to you and you), chew on this: There is a general perception...
Mar 20th
This is crazy. And disgusting. Philip Weiss has an audio recording of Nadia Matar, a leader of the...
Mar 20th
the only people who still care about bono are other celebrities.
Mar 20th
Last Night’s Cocktail Napkin (By Nic’s Friend...
Mar 20th
Also, maybe we can give Nic a coronary: a writer named “Intern” on the...
Mar 20th
This is why you’re suicidal.
Mar 20th
Nostalgia for places you’ve never been. This one’s for Krucoff.
Mar 20th

AS IN

DROPPING ONE ON THE HEADS OF UNSUSPECTING READERS WHO OPENLY REJECT OPRAH BUT SECRETLY WATCH IT.
Mar 20th

SPOILER ALERT

DOOCE = DEUCE. JUST SAYIN.
Mar 20th
Aww, an email forward from my momma to her sons… I’m not going to see this but since...
Mar 20th
Peabs is back and killing it. Best of all? No mention of politics or bloggers. It’s morning...
Mar 20th
This week’s parsha: Moses assembles the people of Israel and reiterates to them the...
Mar 20th
While you were thinking about Moe and Rex while you were supposed to be thinking about the...
Mar 20th
An Open Letter to Rabbi Steve Gutow: An Unaffiliated Jew’s response to “Why We Need a Liberal Israel...
Mar 20th
Must read. The Secret War Against American Workers: The Unemployment Story No One Notices.
Mar 20th
While you were thinking of Moe and Rex, we were concerned about the world’s water supply and...
Mar 20th
Some mornings you wake up and realize you’re humorless and politically correct. That’s...
Mar 20th
Are we tentblogging now?
Mar 20th
“The tent-city in Sacramento, the capital of...
Mar 20th
I’d be curious to know what, if anything, Moe has to say about Rex.
Mar 20th
Facebook existed in 2004? God I’m old old OLD.
Mar 19th
Mar 19th